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Takakkaw Falls is a major waterfall in Yoho National Park near Field, British Columbia, with a total height often given as 373 metres and a main drop of 254 metres, though published measurements vary. Widely described as Canada’s second tallest waterfall, it is fed by meltwater from the Daly Glacier in the Waputik Icefield, which gives it especially strong flow in late spring and early summer during peak snowmelt. Its Cree name means “it is magnificent,” but the name was proposed by Sir William Cornelius Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific Railway, not historically used here by local Indigenous people, and was officially adopted in 1904.
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